Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-10
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention. latest in papers at DoHman's,

The latest 1n papers at Dormans.
 Rents collected promptly at H P. Hoadley's.
 Hon. Leman W. Cutler, of Watertown will be 80 years old next Monday.
 Go to Miss Manwarring to get dolls gowns cut, at IFS Temple street, up one flight.
 The "Matchless" Ives 6 Pond pianos. Fol particulars address L. Barker 6 O., Hartford Conn.
 The board of councilmen meets next Mon day night when the estimates will be con sidered.
 Elegant linen playing cards, hand painted placques and plush novelties very low al Northrop's.
 The New Haven Bicycle club will celebrate its seventh anniversary January 24 by giving banquet.
 been found in Stratford soil, but in infni- tesimal quantities.
 The second assembly was given last night at Loomis' Temple of Music and was com plete success and highly enjoyed.
 Mary Ann Atwater, an esteemed lady resi- dent of Hamden, died yesterday at the age of 67. She attended the Church of the Re desmer.
 Frank M. Doolittls of this city and Miss Nellie Beecher, daughter of Mrs. Augusta Beecher of Cheshire, will be married in that place December 15.
 The union teachers meeting conducted by MT. J. B. Underwood will be held tonight in the chapel of the First Presbyterian church. All invited.
 haa adu k1 sixty per cent. and without apparent cause. Many contracts already made by manufac- turers will have to be filled at old prices.
 The next lecture in the educational series at Stratford will be given on Monday even ing, December 19, in the Town hall by Su- perintendent s. T. Dutton of New Haven. Subject, Reading in school and at home"
 The large circle of friends of Mrs Putnam of Whitneyville, widow of Rev. Austin Put nam, will be glad to learn that she is fast recovering from the effects of a severe attack of pneumonia which greatly prostratsd her recently.
 Beautiful Indeed for Christmas gifts, and many are being bought from Burgess 6c Bur- gess' splendid stock, are those elegant seal sacques and high grade plush sacques, those handsome fur sets, fur caps, fur gloves, also fur muffs ia great variety.
 w. W. Bishop of New Haven, engineer of No. 6 steamer, was in town yesterday paying a fraternal visit to Chief Snagg. Mr. Bishop is the man who erected the opening and closing apparatus for the doors at No. 2's engine house.-Waterbury American.
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, Colonel H. W. R. Hoyt of Greenwich, was in Bridgeport yesterday. and, speaking for him self and taxpayers of his town, remarked that the Governors decision in regard to an extra session this winter gives satisfaction.
 MT. A. o. Norton of Norton 6 Co.,, pro- prietors of Oak Hall clothing store, retires from business in New Haven, and the large stock at Oak Hall is being disposed of Mir. Norton engages in business in New York. He leaves here many friends and a reputation for business sagaoity and enterprise that is most fattering.
 J. w. Brine, Yale outftter and manufac- turer of base ball, football and gymnasium suits, also importer of English Mackintoshes and f1annels, has opened branch store at 1,0o6 Chapel street. MT. Brine has at his store here fine line of mems furnishing goods, also sporting goods of all kinds, in- cluding toboggan and polo suits.
 Hundreds of ladies at Perry's on Chapel street, formerly Plumb's, exclaim: ''What a fine stock and charming selections for Christ mas gifts-so many choice articles and in such variety and 30 admirable and tempting and so many at low price; something to suit all cases. tell all my friends to look into Perry's while out doing Christmas shopping" Mrs. Margaret Lyons, wife of John Lyons, the well known musician and leader of the Reform school band, Meriden, died very sud- denly Thursday evening at her home on Co., 1umbus street of peritonitis. Mrs. Lyons was 58 years old. The funeral will be held at il o'clock this morning, Rector Randall of St. Andrews, Meriden, officiating. The re. mains will be brought to New Haven for bur ial on the 1 o'clock train. Conductor Frank Munson of this city, who fell from freight train at Milford on We'd nesday night and was cut to pieces under the car wheels, had an insurance on his life of $1 ,500. He made application few days ago for membership in cooperative society, but had not joined, as he was obliged to attend to his duties on the railroad the night he was to have been admitted. Had he gained mem. bership in the latter society his family would have received s, 900 more insurance.